Watch:Netflix Executive Reveals Where Its Relationship With Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Stands
Meghan Markleis feeling the love
Nearly four months after herspokespersonconfirmed thatWith Love, Meghanwould not return for a third season but would instead air one-off episodes, the series was nominated for Outstanding Lifestyle Program at the 2026 Daytime Emmys
The Netflix series earned its first nod ever in the categoryforthe 53rd annual awardshow—which will air live Oct. 30 at the Hollywood Palladium—alongsideA Different Breed,George to the Rescue,The MotherhoodandThe Wizard of Paws
With news of Meghan’sseriesnot being greenlit for another season, as well as Netflix divesting from her lifestyle brand As Ever after serving as a launch partner, the streaming giant’s Chief Content OfficerBela Bajariaaddressed speculations about their professional relationship.
“Don’t believe whatever you read,” she said during the Next on Netflix event in March, perThe Hollywood Reporter. “Maybe we should all do a little fact-checking.”
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Netflix Executive Reveals Where Its Relationship With Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Stands
Instead, Bajaria emphasized that stepping away from As Ever was simply a business move
“Deals come and go all the time,” she added, “we don’t renew so many deals and those don’t get as much press for obvious reasons, I guess. So there’s no juicy story there.”
In fact, thestreaming service actually has a royally sweet bond with Meghan and husbandPrince Harry
“We still have a relationship with them,” Bajaria emphasized, “we have movies in development with them, we have an amazing doc with them, they have things in development on the TV and film side.”
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After all, her show—which features guests likeMindy Kaling,Chrissy TeigenandTan France—will still continue to air, just with seasonal specials. And Meghan is more than happy to make the switch
“Eight episodes for two seasons—it’s a lot of work,” she shared atFortune‘s Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2025. “Having doneSuitsfor seven years, I remember what goes into a production.”
Besides, Meghan—who sharesPrince Archie, 7, andPrincess Lilibet, 5, with Harry—is always looking for ways to reimagine her projects
“I also recognize how much people want content in different sizes,” she added. “Part of what we’re testing out now is, it’s amazing to sit and watch a show for 30 minutes, but how can I give you a recipe in two minutes? And where can I share that with you?”
As Meghan and Harry celebrate her latest accomplishment, keep reading for a look back atWith Love, Meghan
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“When I met her, our connection was through health and fitness,” she said. “We would go for runs together, and now we’re moms. We both have two kids. Husbands are really good friends. It’s really sweet to watch the evolution of that friendship.”
The former Suits star went on to share how her thoughts about aging have evolved as well.
“It’s great to go through all that growing up when you’re in your 20s, and start to figure it out when you’re in your 30s, and it’s really awesome to be in your 40s,” she explained. “You have to go through all of that to get to where you’re supposed to be. And it’s been really interesting to watch as we’ve gotten older and more comfortable as women and who we are and in our skin and our bodies.”
Noting the friends now indulge in cookies and wine together, Meghan added, “We’ve just settled into a different era.”
When they finally got together in season two, the pair reminisced about old times on set.
“I remember all having to stand in line,” Meghan recalled, “to get our lashes put on in a row.”
Although they haven’t met up since, the Duchess of Sussex admitted she’s been keeping tabs on Chrissy’s career.
“I left that show and then a year or so later, you got famous,” Meghan told her. “I was like, oh my god, she’s on the cover of Sports Illustrated…You were so sweet.”
As the Cravings cookbook author noted, “I was like, ‘You have a kid named Honsworth?'”
To which, Meghan joked, “My child you’ve never heard of. By the way, if I could’ve have kept a secret like that, I mean, impressive.”
“I always wanted to be a mom,” Meghan added. “I love it. It’s better than I even expected.”
“Honestly, one of the things I miss the most about the U.K. is the radio station Magic,” she admitted to guest Tan France. “I’ll be that grandma.”
These days, she noted her playlists can range from soul to country music.
“My favorite station in my car is called ‘Mom Jeans,’” she said. “These are throwback, great sing-alongs, you forget they existed.”
“I roasted a chicken the night my husband proposed to me, roast chicken is what we served at our wedding, I make it at least once a week,” she explained. “When I made a roast chicken for my now-husband, I was still having a lot of challenges with the conversion of Celsius and Fahrenheit.”
So, she confessed, “I made a horrible chicken that night. I mean, truly terrible. So, the point is, you could make a terrible chicken and someone is still going to appreciate the thought.”
“These vines were here actually when we moved in,” she said in the second episode of With Love, Meghan while picking berries. “This is sort of what inspired my jam and preserve-making.”
As for Meghan’s favorite preserve?
“My grandmother used to make apple butter, so I like that because it’s connected to something sentimental,” the Duchess of Sussex shared, noting her kids Archie and Lili now get to see her carry on the tradition. “But I think my kids will now connect this to coming home from school and smelling sweetness that wafts through the house when you are slow-cooking fruit. ‘There she is. Oh, Mom’s making some preserves again.'”
In fact, Meghan said Lili has even tried her hand at preserve-making.
“Lili and I actually made this batch together,” she said while serving strawberry preserve in episode five. “She picked all those berries with me, and then she’s like, ‘No no, mama. I’ll do it.’ And she wants to try. She’s like, ‘I’ll stir it. I’ll mash it.’ Great. And then you keep the hot stuff away and go ahead and pour it in. But she’s proud. That part feels good.”
“H is a great cook,” Meghan shared in episode five, calling her husband by his nickname. “He makes really great breakfast.”
The duchess also offered some insight into how the Duke of Sussex likes to season his food.
“I have a family, a husband, who no matter what meal is put in front of him, before he tastes it, puts salt on,” Meghan revealed in the second episode, adding she will “try to under-salt” as a result.
The former Suits star broke down her outfit during season one in which she hosted Mindy Kaling for a tea party, sharing she wore Zara pants, a Loro Piana top and a Jenni Kayne sweater.
For instance, in one episode, she hosted a game night for her friends.
“We have all started to learn mahjong together in the past few months,” she said. “Mahjong started in China in the 1800s, and we play a version called American mahjong. What I’ve come to really love about mahjong, the game itself is really fun, but what was so great was the idea of learning something new with your friends together and then recognizing that the mahjong becomes the background of the expansion of friendship.”
In another episode, her friend, Tatcha founder Vicky Tsai, said Meghan also likes pickleball while the duchess herself revealed some of her favorite genres of music.
“I listen to a lot of ’70s soft rock and a lot of yacht rock and a lot of Soul,” Meghan said in episode five, “and then French dinner party music.”
And when it come to food, she said she has a “very, very high tolerance” for spice.
“Even at a young age, we didn’t have a lot, but we traveled,” she said. “My mom was a travel agent. We would just try so many different flavors and different places. My mom would make gumbo, and Soul food has a lot of flavor and a lot of kick to it. I crave that, and I always gravitate to that level of heat. So I am ushering my family into my palate, but I love it.”
“It feels like such a different time,” she remembered in episode two, “but that was so normal with the microwavable kids’ meals that had compartmentalized [sections]…I grew up with that, watching Jeopardy! and having a lot of fast food.”
Her favorites at the time?
“I used to eat a lot of Pollo Loco, Taco Bell—extra hot sauce on the Mexican pizza,” Meghan said, plus, “Jack in the Box because my mom loved their tacos.”
“I was a Girl Scout for so many years,” she said on episode four. “I started as a Daisy, which is when you’re 5 or 6, and I sold a lot of cookies. My mom was troop leader—Troop 949.”
And in With Love, Meghan, she explained why the Sussex name is so meaningful to her.
“It’s so funny too that you keep saying Meghan Markle,” Meghan told Mindy in episode two. “You know I’m Sussex now. You have kids and you go, ‘No, I share my name with my children.’ I didn’t know how meaningful it would be to me, but it just means so much to say, ‘This is our family name. Our little family name.'”
The mother of two revealed her kids share her love of gardening, noting they have their own tools and that “they take gardening seriously.” She also spoke about her daughter’s love of pink and her clean-up song.
“Clean as you go. Lili has made a song out of it,” Meghan said in episode five. “‘Clean as you go. Clean, clean, clean, clean, clean as you go.'”
In addition, Meghan talked about making sun tea with Archie and the time he went fishing and caught a trout. She also detailed her love of cooking with her children.
“It’s so much a part of what I want them to learn and have these great formative memories of being there with me,” she said in episode five. “‘Oh mama used to make this.'”
“I was 13 years old,” she remembered during episode five of With Love, Meghan, “and my first job was at Humphrey Yogart.”
Later on, Meghan helped make doughnuts.
“Doughnuts in general just remind me of my childhood,” she said in episode three. “I once had a job at a little doughnut shop called Lil Orbits Donuts. They made tiny, tiny not doughnut holes, little tiny mini doughnuts they would sell at craft venues. I helped.”
And when she was in college, Meghan worked at a bar in Chicago.
“Doing two majors and then like, ‘I’ll go to Chicago and I’ll just go and make extra money. And I’ll be the coat-check girl,'” the Northwestern University alum said in episode seven. “And they’re like, ‘Oh no, you can actually be a cocktail waitress.'”
But after she was confused by a customer’s martini order, Meghan added, she said her boss told her, “‘Let’s have you go back to being a coat-check girl.'”
Plus, Meghan revealed in other episodes that she previously taught gift-wrapping classes, led book making classes at Paper Source and worked as a hostess at Mirabelle Restaurant on Sunset Blvd.
“When I lived in Argentina, I think the reason I loved it so much is it reminded me of California in a lot of ways where you have the mountains, and you have just this joy of life and the joy of being outside,” the duchess said. “I was only there for a few months interning at the U.S. embassy, but I loved it.”
“You find out it gets picked up. It’s in Toronto. OK, what’s that mean?” she said on episode two. “OK, one season in Toronto. Amazing. Two seasons. OK, is my life gonna be now in this other place? Now, thankfully, I love Canada, and I always tried to invite the cast over or people you meet at the dog park with your dog.”
In fact, her costar Abigail Spencer appears in one of the With Love, Meghan episodes.
The adorable beagle made several appearances throughout the Netflix series, and Meghan had opened up about her love for him.
“I would do anything for Guy, and he knows it,” she said in episode four. “He can have whatever he wants because he is whatever kind of guy you need him to be depending on the day—my sweet guy, my silly guy, my saucy little guy, always my spoiled guy.”
And he was always by her side.
“Guy’s just always there,” she added in episode five. “He’s my shadow, and he’s been with me for a very, very, very long time. Guy’s been with me since I lived in Toronto. He was found in the woods in Kentucky, and he’s since moved with me to the U.K., back to Canada, to California. So yeah, Guy has a lot of stories to tell.”
Following the final episode of season one, Meghan noted that the series is “in loving memory of Guy.”
